Country artist Cody Johnson performs before an overflow crowd on the Palomino Stage on the opening day of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio Friday, April 26, 2019. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Tickets go on sale Tuesday, May 14, for the inaugural Country Freedom Festival, an all-day country music concert celebrating active military, veterans and first responders at the Port of Los Angeles on Saturday, Oct. 19.

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“We love supporting the men and women that serve our country and we are looking forward to honoring our first responders and military in October,” Dani Rose, of the L.A.-based trio Honey County, said in a statement.

In addition to the the music, the festival will include barbecue and other food vendors, mechanical bull rides, line dancing lessons and country yard games plus a Kids Zone for the little wranglers and watermelon-eating contests for the big eaters.

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